Delaware · Nonprofit
DEVELOPING ARTIST COLLABORATION
DEVELOPING ARTIST COLLABORATION (Delaware) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,526 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($308,350). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $391k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $344k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Developing Artist Collaboration does
Mission
The mission of Developing Artist Collaboration (dac) is to transform communities by elevating artists. Dac advances this mission by equipping artists with the professional skills, mentorship, community support, and income-generating opportunities needed to build sustainable creative careers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Dac operates as a creative workforce development organization that helps artists strengthen the mindset, business skills, professional readiness, and community support necessary to build long-term creative careers. A cornerstone of this work is the emerge program, a structured artist business development pathway that combines guided curriculum, mentorship, accountability, and peer collaboration to help emerging artists grow professionally and economically. Through this program and related professional development initiatives, dac provides education, mentorship, and career guidance that helps artists improve pricing, marketing, business strategy, and overall career sustainability. Dac runs an annual cohort of artists in sussex county, and is expanding to state-wide and regional.
$226,043 spent$24,335 earned by the program99% of program spendingDac strengthens the regional creative ecosystem by connecting artists with the broader community through cultural programming, public events, and partnerships. Through exhibitions, creative markets, workshops, and public art experiences, dac creates accessible opportunities for residents and visitors to engage directly with working artists while enriching the cultural life of the region.dac also collaborates with other arts organizations, community partners, and programs serving historically underserved communities to expand opportunities for artists and strengthen local cultural programming. Through these efforts, dac helps educate the public about the role of artists in the creative economy and continues to grow as a cultural driver that supports artists while deepening community engagement with the arts.
$30 spent$40,244 earned by the program0% of program spendingDac provides emerging and hobby-level artists with real-world opportunities to present and sell their work through community-centered platforms that support visibility and earned income. The west side creative market serves as a seasonal marketplace that connects artists directly with the public while providing opportunities to build audiences and generate revenue. Dac also operates artpothecary, a public arts space and creative hub that serves as the organization's headquarters and a platform for pop-up art show exhibitions, artist-led workshops, private events, and professional presentation opportunities
$1,765 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $227,838.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $40k to $134k (+237%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 12% · 2023 18% · 2024 22% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of DEVELOPING ARTIST COLLABORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $158k → $150k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DEVELOPING ARTIST COLLABORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DEVELOPING ARTIST COLLABORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 77% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
99% of DEVELOPING ARTIST COLLABORATION's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
DEVELOPING ARTIST COLLABORATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding DEVELOPING ARTIST COLLABORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $358k on record.
- GRANTS$348k
- GRANTS IN AID$10k
- OTHER RENTAL$727
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DEVELOPING ARTIST COLLABORATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEVELOPING ARTIST COLLABORATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DEVELOPING ARTIST COLLABORATION?
- DEVELOPING ARTIST COLLABORATION (Delaware) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,526 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($308,350). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEVELOPING ARTIST COLLABORATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $343,526 in grants to DEVELOPING ARTIST COLLABORATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEVELOPING ARTIST COLLABORATION?
- LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $308,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEVELOPING ARTIST COLLABORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing